It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“We are at the mercy of whoever wields authority over the things we either desire or detest. If you would be free, then, do… — Epictetus Copy Share
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. — Epictetus Copy Share
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus Copy Share
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at… — Epictetus Copy Share
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the… — Epictetus Copy Share
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus Copy Share
If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and… — Epictetus Copy Share
“For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus Copy Share
What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's… — Epictetus Copy Share
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” — Epictetus Copy Share
